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Domain experts that can code are among the highest paid people in several industries. So, if you don't know how to code, it would likely be a valuable skill to
by SwellJoe 9y ago
Domain experts that can code are among the highest paid people in several industries. So, if you don't know how to code, it would likely be a valuable skill to learn. Python is probably sufficient for many industries, though some of the performance-minded fields want C++ and even Fortran(!).
Lots of scientific computing requires a lot of math and is used in many industries (a company I did contract work for in the past had contracts doing fluid dynamics for P&G, geological analysis for ConocoPhillips, and something for NASA...all using the same set of technical tools, specifically Python, NumPy/SciPy, and some C++/Fortran backend stuff for performance; the company was founded by a math PhD and they employed multiple math PhDs and at least half of the people they employed had some sort of significant math background).
So, if I were in your shoes, I'd learn SciPy/NumPy, and start following the related communities for job postings. There's a lot of demand and a lot of good-paying positions surrounding those communities.
Data science works with math, too, but not often at the advanced levels it sounds like you might be looking for. AI/ML is also somewhat mathy, but not as much as one might think (though I get the feeling there's room for more mathy approaches to problems that are currently very brute-forcey, but my understanding of math and of AI/ML is low enough to where that gut feeling could very well be wrong).
Finally, digital signal processing is an area with significant reliance on math (though pretty specific sub-genres of math). I've recently started taking a couple of math MOOCs to refresh my memory of higher maths (and to learn it for the first time in some cases) so I can understand DSP algorithms for audio and music a little better. DSP has many applications in mobile devices, voice recognition, music and audio and video, etc.